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...eight days of fighting, not one room remained unscarred. A rifle bullet smacked into the wall above my bed while I typed in the bathroom. I thought bathrooms were safe until a .50-cal. bullet smashed through a balcony into a fourth-floor room, penetrated the bathroom wall, shattered the mirror and landed, spent, in the bathtub. The hotel was indirectly pasted by Rudolph the Recoilless Rifle, a monstrous weapon stationed outside by the army. Every time Rudolph was fired, its deafening blast shattered one more of the windows in the lobby walls...
...happy robber gang," the Record reported, converged on the bank and immediately fired a shot into the wall "to show they meant business." While escaping, they fired 30 bullets. "At least four of the shots fired by the bandits crashed into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Antony Rossi of 287 Everett St., one smashing into the wall just above a picture of Jesus," the Record continued. Another bullet struck patrolman Schroeder in the back after he rushed in the front door of the bank trying to capture the robbers...
Through the Walls. A few hours later, two black police officers drove into Piety Street to see why a sports car was burning across the street from the N.C.C.F. building. Without warning, a bullet smashed through the windshield of the patrol car slightly injuring both...
...Israel; one of the Israeli emissaries who once slipped into Jordan in Arab disguise to plead with the King was Golda Meir. A Palestinian gunman killed Abdullah at Jerusalem's historic Al Aqsa mosque. The assassin also fired at Grandson Hussein, who was standing beside Abdullah, but the bullet ricocheted off a medal on his uniform. Abdullah was succeeded by Hussein's father, Talal. But after one year, schizophrenia overcame Talal, and Hussein, 18, was proclaimed monarch...
...headed the T-3 operation, was an old friend. But Escamilla continued to shout and wave his rifle; outside, Richard Scattolini was walking toward the shelter. A few feet from the door, Scattolini heard a rifle shot. He rushed in and found Lightsy lying on the floor with a bullet in his chest. Within half an hour, Lightsy was dead of massive hemorrhages...